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I hope everyone had an enjoyable President's Day. I had to work, bike through the rain and lose at trivia, but still had a good day. My secret? Drinking heavily at the end of it. Oh, and Kriston and Susan gave me this awesome shirt which they picked up on their Gotham/Gates getaway. Thanks guys! I'm getting even more spoiled than usual.
Not a lot to report from over the weekend: Julie and Jon came over on both Friday and Saturday night. It was cold. Doing things is hard. So we stayed in and watched movies. Million Dollar Baby was heart-wrenching and all, but having thought about it a bit more, I agree with Catherine's initial assessment: it's a little cliched. C'est la boxing movie. Of the films watched, Mean Girls clearly stands as the more lasting cinematic achievement.
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A night made worse by our abject failure to listen to the sound logic about the weight of a tennis racket. It's always sad when mob mentality takes over at pub quiz and overrules the sound assessment that, no, tennis rackets don't weight 2 lbs.
Yeah, the javelin thing was a shame, but with a round entirely devoted to Olympic trivia, it was sort of lost in the associated devastation.
Most dismaying to me: no crowd reaction for what I thought was an perfectly tasteless team name.
Tommy you assface, you said that movie affected you after you watched it, and the only boxing movie you have to compare it to is Rocky IV, which was differently awesome. It's hard to even say Million Dollar Baby was just a boxing movie since the whole second half of the film was just about a man searching for understanding, a girl searching for resolution and how they find redemption in each other. It raises lots of questions, answers a couple of them, and ends with a slow fade, I dont know what more you expect from Hollywood. Im not taking anything away from Mean Girls but its OK to like something even if everyone else does, and Clint Eastwood's face in half shadows alone is enough to warrent at least a couple of Academy Awards.
Well I did like it -- didn't mean to imply otherwise -- and was definitely affected by it. I thought it was good, but I have the same lack of patience for the boxing-is-a-metaphor-for-everything people that I have for the baseball-is-a-metaphor-for-everything people.
But you're right, I am being a jerk. It was good. But it could've been better (esp. if they dropped the voiceover and made the hillbilly relatives less one-dimensional).
Kriston and I thought that shirt was the funniest thing we'd ever seen in our whole entire lives at 4am as we stumbled past the shop screaming "WE HAVE TO BUY THAT FOR TOMMY." It wasn't until later reflection that I realized with horror that it was actually pretty stupid. So I'm glad you don't think we're totally weird.
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